On Automating Tasks

Seth Dillingham (Via inessential.com.):

‘Never spend an hour doing by hand what you can spend four hours automating.’

I would advocate:

  1. Do the task manually once – will save you 3hours now
  2. After the same task came up again sometime in the future – automate it

Minimizes the risk of YAGNI.

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